New Report On Satellite Communications In Iraq

SPACEMART

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Hants - Jan 12, 2004
DTT Consulting has published a new report on opportunities in satellite communications in Iraq. The in depth analysis takes a hard and critical look the overall foreign policy impact on satcoms as well as a detailed look at the market.

Since May 2003, Iraq has seen a substantial takeup of DTH and satellite mobile phones. Satellite-based broadband access has been heavily used by the military as well as Internet cafes and other entrepreneurial ventures.

However, we believe that much more substantial opportunities lie ahead over the next two years as reconstruction efforts begin to gear up.

Iraq is critically dependent on satellite communications to provide both domestic and international fixed telecoms, international gateways for mobile communications and broadcasting. Satellites allow a quick fix and ubiquity of service to the countrys seriously run down communications and that is likely to continue for several years.

In particular, we believe that there is room for substantive growth in demand from the broadcasting sector and for VSAT and satellite broadband services. The latter are essential tools for the oil and gas sectors, public sector administration and security, education and health care, thin-route rural communications, banking and business in general.

Reconstruction of fixed line terrestrial telecoms is low priority, leaving major opportunities for satellites in provision of broadband and innovative services such as wireless local loop and Wi-Fi.

Despite incompetence by the Coalition Provisional Government in running Iraq and a security problem a mile high, it looks odds on that substantial reconstruction will take place over the next two years and the political situation will stabilize.

On the other hand, the US foreign policy environment which led to the Second Gulf War looks to be based more on ideology and ignorance than a sound long-term framework. We have long suggested that the current Bush administration is bad news for satellite communications and present the case as a major element of the report.

We also look at practical issues of doing business with Iraq and the major contractors and subcontractors involved in reconstruction.

The report is competitively priced at �250 or US$470 (Euros 360 in the Euro area). We offer a very competitive price for site licenses.

For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us. We can take orders by email but if you need to raise a purchase order we can email you a subscription form.

SPACEMART

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